Improvement in paint-cans



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WASHINGTON L. GILROY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAINT-SANS.

Specifica-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 30,310, dated October 9, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that l, WASHINGTON L. GIL- ROY, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paint-Vessels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of a paintvessel having the improvement applied, and Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section of the upper part of Fig. l, likeletters, when in both figures, indicating the same objects.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar manner, hereinafter described, of constructing the upper or chine end of a paintvessel provided with a drop handle or bail for applying and securing thereto the head or cover, whereby not only a strong and appropriate vessel for securely putting up 7 paint is produced, but the said vessel, on afterward removing the head, results also in a perfectlyfinished or open wire-bound paint-bucket for the use of painters in mixing, carrying, and applying paints.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the vessel, B the head, and O the drop handle or bail. The body A is a Avessel made, of tin-plate or other suitable sheet metal, in the cylindrical form usually' required for securely putting up ground paint,77 and is provided with a wire drop handle or bail, O, attached to the two opposite sides of the Lipper part of the vessel substantially in the manner seen in the drawings. The upper boundary, d, of the body A is n'nished by turning the edge-of the metal outward and downward, and then` inclosing` thereby a stiff wire, e, so as to produce a smooth, stiff, rounded boundary or rim, d, at this part of the same, as seen in the drawings. Immediately below this wired boundary d a deep groove, f, isformed around in the outer side of the vessel, so as to produce a rounded bead, f', around onthe inner side of the same, as seen in the drawings. The head B is simply a flat disk of the same kind of metal plate of which the body A is formed, having its edge g turned sufficiently inward to make the saine iit accurately around within the rim d and upon the bead f when the said head is inserted into the mouth of the vessel A, as seen in the drawings.

Operation: The body of the vessel A being filled up about to the bead f with the paint which is to be put up or. secured therein, the head B is pressed by hand within the wired rim d and then soldered around, soas to close the joint between them and to secure the head in place, as seen in Fig. 1. To afterward open the vessel it is only necessary to cut the solder by running the point of acommon pocketknife around between the wired rim d of the vessel A and the edge of the head B, and then to lift the latter off, the vessel thus resulting in a completely wired and nished painters can or bucket ready for use.

Having thus fully described Iny improvement in paint -vessels and pointed out its utility, what I claim as new therein of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Constructing the upper end of the body of the vessel A with the wired boundary edge or rim d and the inner bead, f', substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth and described.

\VASH. L. GILROY.

W'i tnesses:

BENJ. MoIzIsoN, STEvENsoN H. SMITH. 

